Murder and the death penalty in Massachusetts /
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Amherst :
University of Massachusetts Press,
©2008.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt5vk3ct |
Table of Contents:
- Murder and due proceeding in colonial Massachusetts
- "Hideous consequences" and the declaration of rights
- "Under sentence of death" : the first effort to abolish the death penalty
- "The monster petition"
- A "tong war" and the second effort to abolish the death penalty
- Sacco and Vanzetti
- The insanity defense
- The right to an attorney and criminal discovery
- Confession : neither fear nor favor
- The right of the accused to an impartial jury
- "Success
- at long last"
- The abolition of the death penalty.